b_i_g_g_s
August 1st, 2008, 09:00 PM
Hello,
I am trying to install 8.04 onto a raid10 volume I have created on an adaptec 1430SA.
currently I don't understand much about linux, so please be don't be offended if I get frustrated (I assure you it is with my own ineptness and nothing else) or don't understand what your trying to say.
currently when I am in the installer it sees the each disk and not the raid volumes.
I was given the impression that I should be able to load a driver to make linux BLIND to the disks so that it will only see the raid volume.
dmraid and software raid are not the answers I am looking for. and are the only answers I am finding.
I am looking for either a step by step way to get this 1430SA to work properly by getting the driver installed or getting a new raid card that will do what I want.
I don't want to have to do anything in ubuntu w/ any sort of raid managing util. I just want to setup the raid volume on a raid cards bios and when it boots have the ubuntu installer just see that volume.
a) can this be done w/ this card
b) if not -a- do I need a 3ware to do this?
c) is this a pipe dream ? and am I doomed to not beingable to do this? (this being just having a driver that JUST works). is there a card that works how I want it to? or do all cards need dmraid or some other management util to make them work no matter how "good" a card they are?
I won't mind spending the ~340 for a 3ware card if it means it will just work. I have other things I would rather be doing with my time then batteling with getting hardware to work properly in an OS I am not comfortable with.
ideally I want to setup the volume in the bios, reboot, run the install for ubutnu have it see the raid volume (not every disk attached to the raid card), use the guided partition, have that work, finish the install and get on with my life.
I am trying to install 8.04 onto a raid10 volume I have created on an adaptec 1430SA.
currently I don't understand much about linux, so please be don't be offended if I get frustrated (I assure you it is with my own ineptness and nothing else) or don't understand what your trying to say.
currently when I am in the installer it sees the each disk and not the raid volumes.
I was given the impression that I should be able to load a driver to make linux BLIND to the disks so that it will only see the raid volume.
dmraid and software raid are not the answers I am looking for. and are the only answers I am finding.
I am looking for either a step by step way to get this 1430SA to work properly by getting the driver installed or getting a new raid card that will do what I want.
I don't want to have to do anything in ubuntu w/ any sort of raid managing util. I just want to setup the raid volume on a raid cards bios and when it boots have the ubuntu installer just see that volume.
a) can this be done w/ this card
b) if not -a- do I need a 3ware to do this?
c) is this a pipe dream ? and am I doomed to not beingable to do this? (this being just having a driver that JUST works). is there a card that works how I want it to? or do all cards need dmraid or some other management util to make them work no matter how "good" a card they are?
I won't mind spending the ~340 for a 3ware card if it means it will just work. I have other things I would rather be doing with my time then batteling with getting hardware to work properly in an OS I am not comfortable with.
ideally I want to setup the volume in the bios, reboot, run the install for ubutnu have it see the raid volume (not every disk attached to the raid card), use the guided partition, have that work, finish the install and get on with my life.